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Justo L. González was born in Havana, Cuba on August 9, 1937, attended United Seminary in Cuba, received his M.A. from Yale, and then went on to receive his Ph.D. He was the youngest person to be awarded the historical theology doctorate at Yale.

A festschrift has been published for him: Hispanic Christian Thought at the Dawn of the 21st century: Apuntes in Honor of Justo L. González, edited by Alvin Padilla, Roberto Goizueta, Eldin Villafañe (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005) with contributions from Roman Catholic and Protestant Latina and Latino theologians, historians, and biblical scholars.

Justo González is the main narrator for the video lessons of the Christian Believer study course from Cokesbury publishing.

Gonzalez is also the recipient of the Ecumenism Award from Washington Theological Consortium. This was awarded to him because of his ecumenical work that aims to unify churches with a variety of denominational backgrounds.[13]

In 1984–5 González wrote a popular two volume textbook entitled The Story of Christianity that covers the history of the church from founding till the present in a readable style. He is also the author of a three volume work titled History of Christian Thought. Both works commonly are used as college and seminary textbooks.

Additional books include:

González, Justo L, Acts: The Gospel of the Spirit.

———, The Apostle's Creed for Today.

———, The Changing Shape of Church History.

———, Christian Thought Revisited: Three Types of Theology.

———, The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation.

———, Essential Theological Terms.

———, Faith and Wealth: A History of Early Christian Ideas on the Origin, Significance, and Use of Money.

———, For the Healing of the Nations: The Book of Revelation in an Age of Cultural Conflict.